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Do people get happier or more foul-tempered as they age? Stereotypes of irri

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问题     Do people get happier or more foul-tempered as they age? Stereotypes of irritable neighbors【C1】______.scientists have been trying to answer this question for【C2】______.and the results have been conflicting. Now a study of several thousand Americans born between 1885 and 1980【C3】______that well-being indeed increases with age but overall happiness depends on when a person was born.
    【C4】______studies that have compared older adults with the middle-aged and young have sometimes found that older adults are not as happy. But these studies could not【C5】______whether their discontent was because of their age or because of their different life experience. The new study, published online January 24 in Psychological Science,【C6】______out the answer by examining 30 years of data on thousands of Americans, including psychological measures of mood and well-being, reports of job and relationship success, and objective measures of health.
    The researchers found, after controlling for【C7】______such as health, wealth, gender, ethnicity and education, that well-being increases over everyone’ s lifetime. But people who have lived through extreme【C8】______, such as the Great Depression, start off much less happy than those who have had more comfortable lives. This finding helps to explain why past studies have found【C9】______results— experience matters, and tough times can influence an entire generation’s happiness for the rest of their lives. The good news is, no matter what we’ ve lived through, we can all look forward to feeling more【C10】______as we age.
A)reveals B)decades C)besides D)content
E)tough F)teased G)previous H)conflicting
I)discern J)establish K)variables L)ruled
M)aside N)hardship O)measures [br] 【C2】
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答案 B
解析 decade的意思是“十年”，for decades为固定搭配，意为“数十年”，根据句意，科学家们数十年来，直在试图回答这个问题。因此，正确答案是B。
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